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Statins – Wonder drug or Villains?

My wife sent me this article adapted from the daily Express. I took Simvastin, a powerful Stain drug, for 15 years and today 15 years on – I’m rarely free from muscular pain and joint problems. This so called benign … Continue reading

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STATIN DRUGS – KNOW THE DANGERS

If you use any drug with the word statin in it then you need to read this material and make up your own mind. The question should be “are they effective in reducing heart disease”?
In very simple terms the pharmaceutical companies produced statin type drugs to respond to the belief that you can reduce the incidence of heart attacks by reducing the level of cholesterol in the blood.
The basis for the belief and use of statins comes from the call to adopt low fat/low cholesterol diets of the late 1980s and 1990s.
Maybe, just maybe, its not a sound decision. Continue reading

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Cholesterol – how they have tricked us

In the early 1900s, experiments were conducted where rabbits were fed very large amounts of (synthetic – and easily oxidised) dietary cholesterol every day Their blood cholesterol rose from a normal of 100mg to 20 times that level. In a … Continue reading

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dangers of statin drugs

If you use any drug with the word statin in it then you need to read this material and make up your own mind. The question should be “are they effective in reducing heart disease”?
In very simple terms the pharmaceutical companies produced statin type drugs to respond to the belief that you can reduce the incidence of heart attacks by reducing the level of cholesterol in the blood.
The basis for the belief and use of statins comes from the call to adopt low fat/low cholesterol diets of the late 1980s and 1990s.
Maybe, just maybe, its not a sound decision. Continue reading

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The Importance Of Selecting The Right Fish Oil Pills

Despite the possible presence of contaminants in fish, benefits of eating fish cannot be denied as supported by numerous researches and studies. Fish contain omega-3 fatty acid that helps reduce the risk of heart disease. One possible way to prevent … Continue reading

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Cholesterol Theory – Fatally Cracked

As many of you may know I have a particular interest in the Cholesterol Theory of heart disease and this article came across my deskĀ  today and i thought it so important that i just had to post it. The … Continue reading

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